Luminous

Luminous Books is an artist curated second hand bookshop in East London focusing on fiction, philosophy, art and curiosities.

Open Saturdays 12-6pm
3.5 Frederick Terrace E8 4EW

Also at:
The ICA Bookshop SW1
ANDOR Bureau E8

louisa@luminousbooks.co.uk

Jan 27
Vintage Evening Thursday 2nd February 6.00-10.00pm Trinity Hospice shop, 77 Streatham Hill, SW2 4UB Luminous Books is making a rare appearance in South London next week as part of a special vintage shopping evening! Join us for wine and nibbles and a good rummage through Luminous’ range of vintage classics alongside a selection of independent vintage stalls all donating a percentage of profits to the Trinity Hospice.

Vintage Evening

Thursday 2nd February

6.00-10.00pm

Trinity Hospice shop, 77 Streatham Hill, SW2 4UB

Luminous Books is making a rare appearance in South London next week as part of a special vintage shopping evening! Join us for wine and nibbles and a good rummage through Luminous’ range of vintage classics alongside a selection of independent vintage stalls all donating a percentage of profits to the Trinity Hospice.
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Picpus…now available at Luminous Books!

Picpus…now available at Luminous Books!
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The Coelacanth Journal no.7 High-Rise, now available at Luminous Books.

”..It is interesting to consider that where ‘high-rise’ connotes modern living, ‘visionary’ planning, forwards..upwards..heaven-bent etc, the damning ‘tower-block’ takes us more into JG Ballard’s realm of the catastrophic (as explored in his 1975 novel, High- Rise), and the tortuous idea that as ancient an imperative it is for us to rise, we must always fall.” Phoebe Blatton, Editor.

This issue includes a reading list by Luminous Books on the theme of High-Rise.
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Jan 19
Packing up the latest batch of Luminous books bound for the ICA Bookshop! Visit the ICA next week for the opening of In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955

Packing up the latest batch of Luminous books bound for the ICA Bookshop!

Visit the ICA next week for the opening of In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955
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Jan 18

Trip to Hampstead yesterday yielded two beautiful John Fante editions from Black Sparrow Press and an amazing glimpse of Jupiter with three of its main moons through a telescope at the Hampstead Observatory! Jupiter’s four main moons are called Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The planet has 50 moons in total plus 14 provisional moons… Im not sure which ones we saw but they were beautiful!

The Hampstead Observatory is open as part of BBC Stargazing Live but is also open regularly for solar viewing and special events throughout the year.
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Jan 16
File//Citylikeyou Luminous Books shares some of our favourite spots in London in File magazine’s great feature: Citylikeyou. http://file-magazine.com/citylikeyou/profiles/louisa-bailey Explore the other profiles for more worldwide tips from creatives and their cities.

File//Citylikeyou

Luminous Books shares some of our favourite spots in London in File magazine’s great feature: Citylikeyou.

http://file-magazine.com/citylikeyou/profiles/louisa-bailey

Explore the other profiles for more worldwide tips from creatives and their cities.
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Jan 14
RIP Claire de Rouen. Legend of the Charing Cross Road. http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/blog-post/2130867/-claire-rouen-bookshop-london
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Jan 10
Ticket stub marking a page of Notes on Nationalism found inside George Orwell’s Decline of the English Murder and other essays (Penguin Books,1965). This collection ends with the fascinating essay Why I Write which begins: “From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”

Ticket stub marking a page of Notes on Nationalism found inside George Orwell’s Decline of the English Murder and other essays (Penguin Books,1965).

This collection ends with the fascinating essay Why I Write which begins:

“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”
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Jan 6
Following Steve Moore’s first public reading at Luminous Books’ annual Moon event in November, Moore was interviewed by The Quietus in a fascinating conversation touching on the moon, magic, Alan Moore, the moon goddess Selene and his new novel Somnium.

Following Steve Moore’s first public reading at Luminous Books’ annual Moon event in November, Moore was interviewed by The Quietus in a fascinating conversation touching on the moon, magic, Alan Moore, the moon goddess Selene and his new novel Somnium.
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